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Pages: 222
Authors: Tanya Pollard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Draws upon both medical and literary research to show the preoccupation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries with drugs and poisons in their dramas.
Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Tanya Pollard
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-02-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England asks why Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights were so preoccupied with drugs and poisons and, at a deeper leve
Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Allison P. Hobgood
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.
Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage
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Pages: 249
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Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and pr
Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England
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Examines the impact of hearing on the formal and generic development of early modern theatreEarly modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art form. How pl